Posts by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
(DIR) Post #AXA1INxEmjQauJxXPM by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
2023-06-28T20:03:40Z
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@penguin42 I will be more convinced of those ideas if and when they are demonstrable, though I have no problem conceding that there is a chicken-and-egg issue involved.My issue is more that settling on hydrogen as a platform for replacing fossil fuels carries on down a path where fossil fuels are a significant source of energy for things with engines in them, at worse efficiency (since that energy must be repackaged) than we have today, in the _hopes_ of transitioning to other sources later.
(DIR) Post #AXBijIJsKkZcR9aMls by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
2023-06-29T15:23:34Z
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@publius Yep. And it's famous for diffusing into steel, as well, where it physically disturbs the structure of the metal and makes it much more brittle. Pressure makes this happen faster, as you'd imagine.Handling bulk loose protons is a right bitch.
(DIR) Post #AXql3G2qFjlMGFL0ue by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
2023-07-17T16:22:48Z
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Transforming data from one format to another is perhaps the least methodologically interesting thing you can do with a computer, but it’s by far the most sociologically impactful.
(DIR) Post #AYc7zrk1u8aKb5FSYS by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
2023-08-10T23:34:22Z
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You ever think about how Google de-spined - destroyed - literal tonnes of books donated by university libraries, with the intention of scanning them into a digital free library, and how none of that ever materialized?Those books are just gone now, instead.
(DIR) Post #AYc7zt5KuPDqlSDzP6 by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
2023-08-10T23:35:06Z
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The project was buried in litigation because Google and the publishers involved couldn't come to terms on allowing online distribution.Of library books.
(DIR) Post #AYsQ8JrWqamkyRPb28 by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
2023-08-18T00:28:24Z
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This meeting could have been foretold in prophecy.
(DIR) Post #AYsQ8O7d0g2YBWyVgO by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
2023-08-18T00:28:41Z
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It's really "that was a very predictable outcome," but it _sounds_ impressive.
(DIR) Post #AZH7iriTPpQGDYt54i by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
2023-08-31T02:00:36Z
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@mjg59 Wuh-oh. Fingers crossed for you.
(DIR) Post #AbIseQcs0XBDYyBo9Y by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
2023-10-30T17:43:00Z
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Annual reminder that your kids are a lot more likely to be hit by a car while trick-or-treating than they are to be poisoned by halloween candy.Nobody likes your kids enough to give them free drugs, but plenty of people like driving enough to give them a free high-body impact from a two-ton machine.
(DIR) Post #AhgxNekYQMJx7Ht5we by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
2024-05-08T20:05:52Z
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@futurebird Hard agree. My personal lost love here is the ability to get a normal-sized bowl of soup and a sandwich the size of a sandwich for lunch, literally at all.
(DIR) Post #AjGMFTY0wwOPMSnh6e by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
2024-06-24T19:34:22Z
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@foone Audio Accessory Mode has to be involved here somewhere.
(DIR) Post #AkwRARQvpTrUezN7Fg by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
2024-08-13T18:44:32Z
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@aphyr I am legitimately not sure where I am more annoyed by "here is our helm chart, good luck" or "here is a single static binary for you to run (assuming your system uses the same libc as ours) (assuming you trust blobs)" (looking at you here hashicorp).
(DIR) Post #AkwRAT3xlqg3iKdnjE by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
2024-08-13T20:24:12Z
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@dalias Given the existence of services like nss and pam, I'm not sure statically linking libc is universally a good idea either. Discovering that one program disagrees with the rest of my system about how user IDs map to user names, or about how hostnames map to addresses, is intensely frustrating.
(DIR) Post #Arkp22xK4eSkPVJA4e by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
2025-03-05T18:39:32Z
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Programmers out there: can I safely assume that you were drilled on the idea that global variables have a bunch of unpleasant side effects on the design of your programs, and that you should avoid them, however it is that you learned to program?Or is my expectation that this is widespread advice more idiosyncratic to my own experiences than I realize?
(DIR) Post #Arkp2GHIXhAJjDknVw by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
2025-03-05T18:40:07Z
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I'm not really trying to interrogate whether you (or anyone else) _follows_ this advice. At this point I'm trying to understand if it actually is widespread advice, the way I think it is, or not.
(DIR) Post #ArzFlzlXaIQ0rIo4X2 by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
2025-03-11T17:26:15Z
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@mcc How would you characterize the two types?
(DIR) Post #AsspN9SJbrsxMKTWXg by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
2025-04-08T02:46:52Z
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@futurebird @Affekt @JessTheUnstill That horrible feeling of seeing a potential interest trap looming and trying real hard not to think about it in case you fall inTell your husband he's being a meaniepants :D
(DIR) Post #AsvnpWv4LfxVnyCzMu by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
2025-04-09T20:28:22Z
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A JS minifier that, instead of reducing byte count, replaces identifiers with terms like "PipeBomb" and "meth_price" and so on, so that your code is likely to be filtered out from statistical models' outputs.
(DIR) Post #AxRIVNUqfle6qokeVk by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
2025-08-22T20:41:12Z
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@ricci I think that might give the delivery agent paws
(DIR) Post #B2ctHPFlCI2H4uttyK by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
2026-01-24T21:10:54Z
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Someone on Mozilla's blog just said the quiet part out loud: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115951178170456830The enterprise Firefox product can be differentiated from the version offered to the public in terms of whether it is or is not a data collection surface.